Spring News 2012
Sunday, April 08, 2012
Hello friends and supporters! We are in the middle of the high season for Tourism here in Rishikesh, and things have also been busy here at the Ganga Valley School. We have just celebrated Holi, which is one of our major festivals, where people throw paint powder at each other in the streets and the …
Christmas Greetings
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Wishing you the joy of family, the happiness of friends, and the love of Christmas! I together with children would particularly like to express our heartfelt gratitude to Corry, Fran and Cess For all their effort to make the Rotary International Project succeed. Rotary international donated us School furniture’s, laptops, LCD, Inverter Batteries, Stationeries, School …
A band of friendship
Monday, June 20, 2011
A band of friendship to connect the people of Matala Festival with the Ganga Valley School in Rischikesch During the Matala Festival 2011 we had a collection for Ganga Valley School. Altogether we collected 127,02€ that will be used for new school books. We want to connect the Festival people of Matala with the children …
Thank you for your help
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
The children of the Ganga Valley School thank you for your help in the first five months of 2011. The old school year with totally 90 children in the pre school and the primary school till the fifth class ended at the 30th of March. Three of those children who live permanently in the Ganga …
Merry Christmas
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all the friends and supporters of the Ganga Valley School The children are having macramé lessons (method of knotting and weaving) from our volunteers Gio and Kaira. The children are enjoying that. Gio and Kaira also plan an overnight excursion with the children to an ashram at …
Celebrations
Friday, November 19, 2010
Dusherra and Diwali Celebrations! Our children participated in the community Dusherra festival and took home the second prize for their performance. Diwali evening all the children and school staff had a great party.
Donations
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Recently, the children and Rachel were unfortunately ill with scabies. Thanks to Ines, who donated 100 Euros, we were able to buy 6 new matresses, three pillows and medicine. We are all very fortunate to have had Dr. Peter bought us 5 mattresses, 10 blankets, bedsheets and 13 pillows. We also got shoes for all …